A while back, when I was preaching through Ephesians, I included the following letter in one of my sermons. It was written in 1 BC from a Roman citizen to his wife, who was expecting a child.
He wrote this:
I am still in Alexandria. … I beg and plead with you to take care of our little child, and as soon as we receive wages, I will send them to you. In the meantime, if (good fortune to you!) you give birth, if it is a boy, let it live; if it is a girl, expose it.
In case you didn’t know, “expose it” is a nice way of saying, “Throw it out. Let it die.”
Can you imagine living in a society where people choose whether or not they want to keep their baby based on its gender?
Can you imagine living in a society where people thought it was okay to kill a baby girl simply because you wanted a boy?
Oh… wait…
I tremble at what has become of our nation. I would pray for God’s mercy upon us, but I fear we are beyond that.
How can anyone who claims to be a defender of equal rights for all people regardless of gender or race, be opposed to a law which would make it illegal to discriminate against unborn babies based on their gender or race?
Worse yet, if HR 3541 had been about baby dolphins or puppies instead of baby humans, it probably would have passed…
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